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New York Times, The: morning daily newspaper published in New York City, long the newspaper of record in the United States and one of the world's great newspapers. Its strength is in its editorial ...
New York University: private institution of higher learning in New York, New York, U.S., that includes 13 schools, colleges, and divisions at five major centres in the borough of Manhattan. It was founded ...
New York World: daily newspaper published in New York City from 1860 to 1931, a colourful and vocal influence in American journalism in its various manifestations under different owners.
New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company: American railroad that began operations between Buffalo, N.Y., and Chicago in 1882. That same year William H. Vanderbilt purchased control because its tracks paralleled those of his Lake Shore and ...
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company: American railroad operating in southern New England and New York. It was absorbed by the Penn Central Transportation Company in 1969.
New York, State University of: state-supported system of higher education established in 1948 with some 64 campuses located throughout the state of New York. SUNY was officially organized more than 150 years after the state ...
New Yorker, The: American weekly magazine, famous for its varied literary fare and humour. The founder, Harold W. Ross, published the first issue on February 21, 1925, and was the magazine's editor until ...
New Zealand: an island nation in the South Pacific. New Zealand is a remote land. One of the last sizable territories suitable for habitation to be populated and settled, it lies more ...
New Zealand Company: (1838-58), British joint-stock company responsible for much of the early settlement of New Zealand; it attempted to colonize in accordance with the theories of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (q.v.). Formed in ...
New Zealand Labour Party: political party established in 1916 in a merger of various socialist and trade-union groups, including the Unified Labour Party (founded in 1910) and the Social Democratic Party (founded in 1913). ...
New Zealand literature: the body of literatures, both oral and written, produced in New Zealand.
New Zealand National Party: political party founded in 1936 in the merger of non-Labour groups, most notably the United Party and the Reform Party, two parties that had been in coalition since 1931. It ...
New Zealand Political Reform League: conservative political party formed from various local and sectional organizations that took power in 1912, following a general election in 1911, and held control of the government until 1928. The ...
New Zealand short-tailed bat: either of two species (M. robusta and M. tuberculata) of small bats that are the only species in the rare bat family Mystacinidae, which is found only ...
New Zealand, Church of the Province of: an independent Anglican church that developed from missionary work begun in the 19th century. The first missionaries arrived in New Zealand from Australia in 1814. The work flourished, and in ...
Newar: people of mixed descent who comprise about half the population of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. They speak a language belonging to the Tibeto-Burman family, but their culture has been ...
Newark: city, seat (1808) of Licking county, central Ohio, U.S. It lies at the junctions of the North and South forks of the Licking River and of Raccoon Creek, 30 miles ...
Newark: city, New Castle county, northern Delaware, U.S. It lies just west-southwest of Wilmington. The community developed in the late 1680s around the New Worke Quaker meetinghouse, which served as an ...
Newark: city and port, Essex county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies on the west bank of the Passaic River and on Newark Bay, 8 miles (13 km) west of lower ...
Newark and Sherwood: district, administrative and historic county of Nottinghamshire, central England, in the east-central part of the county. Newark and Sherwood district extends from the fertile, wide valley of the River Trent, ...
Newark-on-Trent: town, Newark and Sherwood district, administrative and historic county of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies along the River Trent at the crossing of the Roman Fosse Way with the modern Great ...
Newberg: city, Yamhill county, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It lies in the Willamette River valley, southwest of Portland. Founded in 1869 as the first Quaker settlement in the Pacific Northwest, it was ...
Newberry: county, central South Carolina, U.S., a hilly region of the Piedmont. The Broad River and its Parr Reservoir impoundment form part of the eastern border, and the Saluda River forms ...
Newbery Medal: annual award given to the author of the most distinguished American children's book of the previous year. It was established by Frederic G. Melcher of the R.R. Bowker Publishing Company ...
Newbolt, Sir Henry: English poet, best-known for his patriotic and nautical verse.
Newburgh: city, Orange county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies on the west bank of the Hudson River (opposite Beacon), 58 miles (93 km) north of New York City. First settled ...
Newburn: urban area, Newcastle upon Tyne metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Northumberland, England. It lies on the western boundary of the Tyneside metropolitan area. A ...
Newbury: town, West Berkshire unitary authority, historic county of Berkshire, England. The town lies along the River Kennet, on the Kennet and Avon Canal. Much evidence of Roman occupation has been ...
Newburyport: city, Essex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies at the mouth of the Merrimack River, 30 miles (48 km) north-northeast of Boston. Settled in 1635 (as part of Newbury), its ...
Newcastle: town, Down district (established 1973), formerly in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies along Dundrum Bay, at the foot of Slieve Donard (2,796 feet [852 m]), which is the highest ...
Newcastle: city, seat (1890) of Weston county, northeastern Wyoming, U.S., near the Black Hills and the South Dakota border. Founded in 1889 as the terminus of the Burlington Railroad and named ...
Newcastle: city and port, New South Wales, Australia. It lies at the mouth of the Hunter River, 104 miles (168 km) by rail northeast of Sydney.
Newcastle: town, northwestern KwaZulu/Natal province, South Africa. It lies at the foot of the Drakensberg mountains. The fourth British settlement in Natal, it was founded in 1864 as a regional trade ...
Newcastle: town, seat (1786) of Northumberland county, New Brunswick, Canada. It lies 89 miles (143 km) northwest of Moncton. A port of entry opposite Chatham, near the mouth of the Miramichi ...
Newcastle disease: a serious viral disease of birds caused by a paramyxovirus and marked by respiratory and nervous system problems. Some adult birds recover, although mortality rates are high in tropical and ...
Newcastle upon Tyne: city and metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Northumberland, northeastern England. It lies on the north bank of the River Tyne 8 miles (13 km) ...
Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of, Duke Of Newcastle-upon-tyne, Marquess Of Clare, Earl Of Clare, Viscount Haughton, Baron Pelham Of Laughton, Baron Pelham Of Stanmer: prime minister of Great Britain from 1754 to 1756 and from 1757 to 1762. Through his control of government patronage, he wielded enormous political influence during the reigns of the ...
Newcastle, William Cavendish, 1st Duke of: Royalist commander during the English Civil Wars and a noted patron of poets, dramatists, and other writers.
Newcastle-under-Lyme: town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Staffordshire, England. It borders the city of Stoke-on-Trent and occupies the northwestern corner of Staffordshire. Newcastle-under-Lyme takes its name from the ...
Newcomb, Josephine Louise Le Monnier: American philanthropist, founder of Newcomb College, the first self-supporting American women's college associated with a men's school.
Newcomb, Simon: Canadian-born American astronomer and mathematician who prepared ephemerides-tables of computed places of celestial bodies over a period of time-and tables of astronomical constants.
Newcomen, Thomas: British engineer and inventor of the atmospheric steam engine, a precursor of James Watt's engine.
Newdigate Prize: poetry prize founded in 1805 by Sir Roger Newdigate and awarded at the University of Oxford. The award is given annually for the best student poem of up to 300 ...
newel: upright post rising at the foot of a stairway, at its landings, or at its top. These posts usually serve as anchors for handrails. Often the stringboards, which cover and ...
Newell, Allen: American computer scientist and one of the pioneers of the science of artificial intelligence (AI).
Newfoundland: breed of working dog developed in Newfoundland, possibly from crosses between native dogs and the Great Pyrenees dogs taken to North America by Basque fishermen in the 17th century. Noted ...
Newfoundland and Labrador: province of Canada composed of the island of Newfoundland and a larger mainland sector, Labrador, to the northwest. It is Canada's newest province, having joined the confederation only in 1949; ...
Newhall, Nancy: American photography critic, conservationist, and editor who was an important contributor to the development of the photograph book as an art form.
Newham: inner borough of London. It is bordered to the east by the River Roding and Barking Creek, to the south by the River Thames, and to the west by the ...
Newhaven: town ("parish"), Lewes district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, at the mouth of the River Ouse. "New" haven developed after the great storm of 1570, ...
Newhouse Family: family that built the second largest publishing empire in the United States in the second half of the 20th century.
Newington: area in the borough of Southwark, London. It lies southeast of Waterloo Station and west of Bermondsey. In the 19th century the area was developed as a residential suburb, and ...
Newlands, John Alexander Reina: British chemist whose "law of octaves" noted a pattern in the atomic structure of elements with similar chemical properties and contributed in a significant way to the development of the ...
Newman: mining town, northwestern Western Australia. It lies near Mount Newman, the highest peak (3,455 feet [1,053 m]) in the Ophthalmia Range. Both the town and the mountain were named for ...
Newman, Arnold: American photographer, who specialized in portraits of well-known people posed in settings associated with their work. This approach, known as "environmental portraiture," greatly influenced portrait photography in the 20th century.
Newman, Barnett: American painter whose large, austerely reductionist canvases influenced the colour-field painters of the 1960s.
Newman, John Henry: influential churchman and man of letters of the 19th century, who led the Oxford Movement in the Church of England and later became a cardinal-deacon in the Roman Catholic church. ...
Newman, Paul: handsome and charismatic American film actor, an enduring screen presence in the second half of the 20th century.
Newman, Randy: American composer, songwriter, singer, and pianist whose character-driven, ironic, and often humorous compositions won him a cult audience and praise from critics but were atypical of the singer-songwriter movement of ...
Newmarket: town, Forest Heath district, administrative and historic county of Suffolk, England. It lies on chalk downland 70 miles (110 km) north of London. It is the home of the Jockey ...
Newport: county, southeastern Rhode Island, U.S. It lies between Massachusetts to the north and east and the Atlantic Ocean to the south and west and includes Conanicut, Prudence, and Rhode islands ...
Newport: city, seat (1954) of Lincoln county, western Oregon, U.S. It lies on the north shore of Yaquina Bay at the Pacific Ocean. Settled in 1855 as a fishing village, it ...
Newport: city, one of the seats (1796) of Campbell county (the other is Alexandria), Kentucky, U.S. It adjoins Covington (west) and lies opposite Cincinnati, Ohio, on the Ohio River near the ...
Newport: city, Newport county, southeastern Rhode Island, U.S. It occupies the southern end of Rhode (Aquidneck) Island in Narragansett Bay (there bridged to Jamestown). From the harbour on the west, the ...
Newport: city, seat of Jackson county, northeastern Arkansas, U.S. It lies on the White River at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, about 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Jonesboro. Newport ...
Newport: city, seat of Orleans county, northern Vermont, U.S., at the south end of Lake Memphremagog, near the Canadian border. The first house in the settlement (originally called Duncansboro) was built ...
Newport: town, Isle of Wight, historic county of Hampshire, England. It lies near the centre of the diamond-shaped island at the head of the River Medina's estuary, 5 miles (8 km) ...
Newport: town, industrial seaport, and county borough, historic county of Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy), Wales.
Newport Beach: city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. It lies along Newport Bay (Pacific inlet), south of Long Beach. Captain Samuel S. Dunnells sailed into the bay in 1870 looking for "new ...
Newport News: independent city and port of entry, southeastern Virginia, U.S. It lies on the north side of Hampton Roads (harbour) and the mouth of the James River. With Portsmouth, Hampton, and ...
Newquay: town on the Atlantic coast, Restormel borough, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. The town is almost entirely a modern seaside resort, having grown since the mid-19th century from ...
Newry: town and seat, Newry and Mourne district (established 1973), formerly in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies along the River Clanrye and Newry Canal, near Carlingford Lough (inlet of the ...
Newry and Mourne: district, Northern Ireland. Formerly astride Counties Armagh and Down, Newry and Mourne was established as a district in 1973. It is bordered by the districts of Armagh and Banbridge to ...
news agency: organization that gathers, writes, and distributes news from around a nation or the world to newspapers, periodicals, radio and television broadcasters, government agencies, and other users. It does not generally ...
newscast: radio or television summary of news events read by a newscaster or produced with a combination of reading and audio tape for radio or a combination of reading and film ...
Newsday: evening daily tabloid newspaper published in Long Island, N.Y., to serve residents of suburban Nassau and Suffolk counties, east of New York City.